Take On Mars

Take On Mars

Supply Drop Event
INFIDEL 10 Jan, 2017 @ 2:02pm
Supply Configurations
A suggestion that could help players unfamiliar as to where the supply config file names are located. If you made a list of the file names that are in the supply folder, they could use it as a quick reference when they reach the step where they have to type in these file names.

I agree that offering a path to the folder would be easy for most... but I suspect there are players who have never opened up the folder structure to the game.
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dariusz1983  [developer] 10 Jan, 2017 @ 10:42pm 
Good idea. I'll do it for the 1.1 version of this. 😊
sybersmoke 13 Jan, 2017 @ 1:11pm 
Or may be since the supply listings are static unless we make our own, may be just a dropdown? Is a dropdown possible with all the potential defauly supplies. Then use an Other option and entryfield for a custom one. Or radials...not sure what can be implemented.
INFIDEL 13 Jan, 2017 @ 2:10pm 
A drop down would be very cool, maybe even with a catalog of container inventory... I'll volunteer to do the cataloging.
dariusz1983  [developer] 14 Jan, 2017 @ 5:56am 
Well, supply listings are only static untill the devs add new ones. And the ones added by the player aren't. And it would be a rather bad UX to have the default files selectable and the custom ones not. It would probably take 5 minutes after an upload to have someone request a selection of those ;). And surely a catalog won't work together with a dropdown. I don't even know how to display any of that. A radial menu is fancy yes, but rather useless in this scenario. I have no idea how many files I have to offer as a choice and a radial menu is rather an element for a static selection of a known amount of elements. The easiest is to have a small "..." button next to the entry field. Click it, and a dialog opens that lists all the vanilla config files plus any found addon files. Selecting one of the entries will display the loadout manifest in a different part of the dialog window. There's no need to catalog anything @INFIDEL since that would be to much work and would require rework anytime something changes. And again, would only work vor vanilla files. It would be better for me to just read the file and create the manifest from what I read in the file :).

To sum up, selection dialog: yes, manifest: yes.
Last edited by dariusz1983; 14 Jan, 2017 @ 5:57am
INFIDEL 14 Jan, 2017 @ 6:33am 
I think I we're just encountering my bad terminology "catalog"; manifest sounds much closer to what I had in mind.
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